Favorite Historical Quotes

[The Andy-Man]

In France, this "historical quote" is taught as "Tu quoque fili" (you too, my son). WTG historical accuracy !

didn't suentonius quote caeser saying this in greek?

kai su, teknon?
(even you, child?)

[Arrian]

Oh my, is that a Maggie Avatar I see?

-Arrian

edit: and it apparently blinks in and out of existence. Impressive. Most impressive.[/Vader]

[The Andy-Man]

Originally posted by Arrian
Oh my, is that a Maggie Avatar I see?

-Arrian

edit: and it apparently blinks in and out of existence. Impressive. Most impressive.[/Vader]

yes, it is mrs T

though i had a few probs shrinking it looked rather more dashing in its original 160x160 pixles.

[Agathon]

"If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee!" - Lady Astor to Winston Churchill

"If you were my wife, I'd drink it!" - Churchill's retort.

[General Ludd]

Got this from the book I'm reading at the moment, I thought it was funny.

Descended from apes! My dear, we will hope it is not true. But if it is, let us pray it will not become generally known. - Attributed to the wife of the Bishop of Worcester

[Verres]

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names" - JFK

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question" - Albert Camus

"All war represents a failure of diplomacy" - Tony Benn

"Biologically, if something bites you its more likely to be female" - Desmond Morris

"No snowflake in the avalanche ever feels responsible"

[st_swithin]

"Eternity is very long, especially towards the end."
"It is impossible to experience one's own death objectively and still carry a tune."
-Woody Allen

"Telescope (n): A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of a telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details." -Ambrose Bierce

"Don't tell me how I feel and I won't tell you what you think." -Dorothy Parker

"Two people who love the dream above all else would soon vanish altogether. One of them must be on earth to hold the other down. And the pain of being held down by the earth, that is what love for others will be." -Anais Nin (but I strongly suspect this may be Jean Harlowe)

"Democracy is the theory that the average man knows what he wants and deserves to get it GOOD AND HARD." -H.L. Mencken

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Verres
"Biologically, if something bites you its more likely to be female"

[Sandman]

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

George Bernard Shaw

Nationalism is an infantile disease; it is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

[st_swithin]

"In any discussion on physics, men often wax Planck and wane Newton."

[Amadan]

"Given a choice between two evils, I always choose the one I've never tried before"

-- Mae West

[SlowwHand]

"If you harbor a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, if you try to hide a terrorist, you, yourself, are just as guilty as the terrorist." - George W. Bush

[yaroslav]

"Gentlemen, the time for counsel is past and the time for fighting has come."
- Admiral Don Juan of Austria, on the eve of the battle of Lepanto

[Agathon]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
"If you harbor a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, if you try to hide a terrorist, you, yourself, are just as guilty as the terrorist." - George W. Bush

You could at least get the quote right, ya Texan melon farmer. What he actually said was:

"If you terror a harborist, if you fist an errorist, if you try to hiderize a terrorizer, you, yourselfness, are just as guiltized as the terrorizers." - George W. Bush

[Agathon]

Piano: an instrument operated by depressing the keys and the spirits of the audience. -Ambrose Bierce